African-American Music

Encyclopedias

• The New Grove DIctionary of Jazz, 2nd ed. (2002)
  ML 102 .J3 N48 2002, 3 vols.
• Grove Music Online (Log in required from off campus)
• "Jazz" article in Grove Music Online via Oxford Music Online (Log in required from off campus

Bibliographies (Lists of books and articles)

• Jazz Scholarship and Pedagogy: A Research and Information
  Guide, 3rd edition, by Eddie Meadows
  Ref ML 128 .J3 M 34 2006
• Jazz Books in the 1990s: An Annotated Bibliography, by Janice
  Leslie Hochstat-Greenberg
  Ref ML128.J3 H63 2010

Discographies  (Lists of recordings)

• The Penguin guide to jazz on CD, 7th edition, by Richard Cook and Brian Morton
  Ref ML156.4.J3 C67 2004
• Jazz on Record: The First Sixty Years, by Scott Yanow
  Ref ML156.4.J3 Y36 2003
• All Music Guide to Jazz, 3rd edition, edited by Michael Erlewine
  Ref ML156.4.J3 A45 1998
• The Blackwell Guide to Recorded Jazz
  Ref ML 156.4 J3 B66 1995
• The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire, by Ted Gioia
  ML 128 .J3 G56 2012

For more information, see the Subject Guide for Jazz

Use OneSearch to find books with these subjects:

• Jazz -- History and Criticism
• Jazz Musicians -- Biography

Selected Books on Jazz History

• Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History, 2nd ed., edited by Robert Walser​
  ML 3507 .K4 2015
• The History of Jazz, 2nd ed, by Ted Gioia
  ML 3506 .G54 2011
• The Cambridge Companion to Jazz, edited by Mervyn Cooke
  ML 3506 .C29 2002
• The Oxford Companion to Jazz, edited by Bill Kirchner
  ML 3507 .O69 2000
• Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century, by Nate Chinen
  ML 3506 .C54 2018

Jazz Icons series of DVDs, available in Bracken Library

This series includes video of live performances of great jazz performers, such as Wes Montgomery, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Sarah Vaughan and Duke Ellington.

Jazz films on DVD in Bracken Library

Jazz films on Kanopy.com (log in required from off campus)